Corn-sheller.



W. J. MOORE.

CORN SHELLER.

APPLIOATION FILED JULYZ, 1909.

Patented Nov. 30, 1909.

@wanton VILLIAM J. MOGRE, 0F EAST PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

CORN-SHELLER.

@dl/F98.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Nov. 30, 1909.

Application filed July 2, 1909. Serial No. 505,635.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, VVILLrAM J. Moons, a citizen of the United States ot America, residing at East Pittsburg, in the county ot Allegheny and State ot Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful improvements in CorneShellers, ot which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

rlhis invention relates to a corn sheller, and the object ot my invention is to provide a novel hand device for expeditiously removing grains ot corn from a cob, without injuring the hand. To this end, l have devised a metallic corn sheller, comprising two hinged sections adjustable to ears of corn of various sizes, said hinged sections having inwardly extending projections adapted to engage between the rows ot corn and remove the grains of each row.

The detail construction entering into my invention will be hereinafter described and then claimed.

Referring to the drawings :#Figure 1 is an end view ot a corn sheller illustrating the manner of gripping the same, and Fig. 2 is an elevation et the sheller in an open position.

ln the accompanying drawings, l designates two semi-cylindrical metallic sections having longitudinally flared edges 2 and the opposite longitudinal edges cut and bent to provide sleeves 3 and l, the sleeve l fitting between the sleeves 3, whereby the sections can be pivotally connected by a longitudinal bolt 5 and a nut G screwed upon the end ot said bolt. rlhe sections 1 are cut and pressed, as at 7, to provide a plurality of staggcredly arranged inwardly extending projections 8, said projections in plan being semi-circular.

The longitudinal flared edges 2 ot' the sheller are rounded, as at 9, at the upper and lower edges of the sheller, to obviate any sharp corners that would tend to injure grains of corn, or a persons hand manipulating the sheller.

The cylindrical sections l can be easily closed upon an ear of corn and the sheller moved back and forth or rotated upon the ear ot corn to strip the ear of the grains thereof. lt is optional to the user as to the manner in which the sheller' is manipulated to remove grains from an ear ot corn.

lVhile in the drawings forming a part ot this application there is illustrated the preferred embodiments ot' my invention, I would have it understood that the elements therein can be varied or changed without departing from the spirit ot the invention.

Having now described my invention what l claim as new, is

l. A corn sheller comprising two semi-cylindrical sections having longitudinal flared edges, a longitudinal bolt pivotally connecting the opposite edges otl said sections, and a plurality of staggeredly arranged inwardly extending semi-cylindrical proj ections struck from each ot said sections.

2. A corn sheller comprising a pair of curved sections hinged together at one side and each having the marginal portion ot its other side flaring, each ot said sections furthermore provided with inwardly-extending semicylindrical projections struck Jfrom their respective section, the projections upon one section extending toward the projections ot the other section.

3. A corn sheller comprising a pair of curved sections hinged together at one side and each having the marginal portion of its other side iiaring, each of said sections turthermore provided with inwardly-eXtending semi-cylindrical projections struck from their respective section, the projections upon one section extending toward the projections ot the other section, said projections ot' each section arranged in longitudinally-entending rows, withthe projections ot one row arranged staggeredly with respect to the projection of the other row.

ln testimony whereof I aliix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLlAM J. MOORE.

1Witnesses:

MAX H. SRoLovrrz, K. H. BUTLER. 

